John McCain Quotes

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction.

We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars.

It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

I fought for peace in the fifties.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

War is failure of diplomacy.

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

It is a conviction that war is not an answer to human conflict any more than cannibalism is an answer to human hunger.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.

Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.